[CasearianDaoist]

Exactly. Kristol is a little boy, a spoiled and cosseted Upper East Side/Georgetown Brat who is flumoxed that the sort of man that he would like to have take him seriously, the sort of man that he would like to be, does not take him seriously at all.

Conservative politics was a sort of rebellion angaist his social circumstances. As it becomes more of a populist movement he moves away from it. He cannot find himself agree with a hardware store owner in Memphis, heaven forbid.

As Kerry apes J. F. Kennedy so Kristol apes Buckly but with out his patriotism, scruples, intelligence, erudition and concern for the Nation.

He is a narcissitic as Kerry. This appears to be a real Bommer problem in our elites.

Years ago he would have been another democrat intellectual, probably on a campus somewhere. The only reason he is not is that the Democrat party's leadership and cadres have moved so very far to the Left.

[cajungirl]

Dang, you are good! Krystal and Kerry are shadows, imitations, cut outs of Kennedy and Buckley. Buckley is a giant,,his loss will be horrible. Saw him on cspan interviewing about his recent book and loved him as I always have. He is a man, a real one.

[maica]

Excellent critique of Kristol.